The Metropolitan Police has concealed its “serious failings” in the investigations into the murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987, and its first objective has been to “protect itself,” an independent panel has found. Morgan, a private investigator at Southern Investigations in Thornton Heath, was 37 years old when he was axed to death in a dark corner of the car park of the Golden Lion public house in Sydenham, South East London, leaving behind his wife and two young children. No one has ever been convicted of the murder as a result of four major police investigations, an inquest, and several other operations. The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel on Tuesday published a 1,251-page report after its 8-year investigation during which the panel reviewed “some 110,000 documents, amounting to more than a million pages.” The panel was established in May 2013 by the then-Home Secretary Theresa May, to look into allegations including police involvement in Daniel …